On 4/13/07, Steven Lee slee@cs.cornell.edu wrote:
I have a quick question: if a bug is discovered in CentOS but the bug came from RHEL, how would this bug be handled? If CentOS fixes the bug, it would no longer be identical to RHEL, no?
Short answer is: It depends.
Long answer is: we verify the bug, and make sure that the bug does exist upstream as well. Then depending on the severity and/or impact of the bug, we may fix it ourselves, but place the new package into centosplus, so as to not interfere with the 1:1 compatibility that users want, unless they specifically choose to add the fix. This was done in centos 4 with the spinlock typo issue with the kernel and 1 or two other packages.
Other times if we can fix the bug, we submit the patch/fix upstream and wait for it to be rolled into the updates.